How do you find out your actual A level marks?

[jewel1968]

I keep hear about students being 1 mark off the next grade. Thanks

I think my son's were on the UCAS site.

The school will have a breakdown of each student's marks by paper.

I'm pretty sure they're not on UCAS hadalife.

We had queues of students waiting to see us yesterday to find out what their actual marks were to see how close they were to grade boundaries. If it was on UCAS, they could have just looked there.

School will have UMS on results slip which your dc may well have, then convert that UMS to raw mark using the exam board website.

It depends on the exam board titchy. DD knew her biology mark as it was on her exam slip (Edexel). Her other 2 subjects were with AQA and just had a grade, no marks.

We had to ask school as nether OCR or AQA had them on the results slip.

Teachers can log in to the exam board website to see the raw marks

Thanks. He has popped in to school where hopefully he gets help. The slip he got doesn't seem to have anything other than grade and points which I think are UCAS points.

The school has the grades and they print the results slips.
Actual marks are usually included, exept in subjects where there are modules that had moderation. These are not subject to re-marking unless the school deems the cohort to have been under graded - and then they must request that the whole set of exams are re-moderated. So art or music, for example, will not usually give actual marks on the results slip - just overall grade.

*except (doh!)

Thanks everyone. He got the marks. 2 marks off an A so going for remark.

At DD's school anything that was a near miss markwise was highlighted and sent off straight away. They didn't wait for students to query it. It's a shame that they didn't do that for your DS jewel.

I hope he gets upgraded.

A friend told me something similar which is why we explored. When he went to school he met his teacher for the subject who agreed it was worth doing a remark. He was expecting an A* so was very confused and disappointed. We shall see what happens.

Good luck with the re-mark. Lonicera the reason that OPs school didn't do that is probably money. I teach A level and have 6 students who were between 1-3 marks off the next grade - students who I really expected to get the higher grade. They sat 2 exams. It has cost me almost £50 for each exam for each student - so I have paid out (of next year's budget) almost £600 to see if I can possibly get them up a grade. However, considering that my budget for the year is under £2,000 and I have to buy everything my department needs out of that I have taken a huge risk. If the grade does NOT change I will not get a penny re-funded.

To be honest, I probably won't do it again next year. I will offer parents the chance to do so - but I teach in a fairly socially deprived area and many parents would struggle to afford £100 gamble like that.

Bless, I thought money might play a part. In DS's case I don't think it will make any difference regarding his university choice. He is likely to go with insurance university which I suspect will suit him more but he was so disappointed with the grade being so much lower than he expected we are doing it for his confidence etc.... It is the subject he wants to study in university and he was starting to doubt himself.

Bless (or anybody with insight), do you know how a teacher/school would make a decision to call for a script when funds are tight? How are decisions made when there are a number of students close to the boundary? Thanks

Bless did you send off both papers at once? I was told to do them individually in case one goes up and one goes down?

We get parents to pay.

Yonks ago when I had DDs GCSEs re-marked
school asked us each for a cheque
but because half of the cohort grades were altered, the board did not charge the school
and the school returned all of the cheques

if the school had had to pay, they would have asked us for the money

Flappy I did send both off for a couple of students who did badly (unexpectedly) in both. For the others - there was a big discrepancy in marks. So one paper I had a student get 65/80 on which was pretty much expected - other one they got 43/80 which wasn't, so I just applied for the low paper to be re-marked.

Jewel I don't know how other schools do it. If a student has been writing me B grade essays for the past 2 years and I would expect them to be a solid B grade if they are a few marks lower, or if one paper they have done very badly on, I would make an individual decision. Money is always tight, sadly. And I don't want to penalise students whose parents cannot or will not pay. I would always get a re-mark if the students are close to a boundary and I genuinely thought they would get the higher grade. If I felt they had got a high B and they were a B grade student I don't think I would get a paper re-marked hoping for an A.

Thanks for the insight. We don't know what each individual paper was marked. Didn't ask teacher and teacher didn't say so we have gone for all 3 to be remarked. It is a lot of money but teacher thought it was worth it.

At my children’s school parents pay for remarks. Personally I agree with that, I don’t think it should come out of school funding.

That would tend to give more affluent students another advantage though, LadyPenelope.

Ellen - I had a similar thought although I would hope schools would pay if student receives free school meals. Trouble is there are loads of parents struggling who don't qualify for fsm.